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King's Lynn
Norfolk
Sir Robert Walpole
3 April 1721
6 February 1742
Regarded as the first prime minister in the modern sense. Created
Earl of Orford
on 6 February 1742
Earl of Orford
House of Lords
The Earl of Orford
6 February 1742
11 February 1742
See previous entry.
Earl of Wilmington
House of Lords
The Earl of Wilmington
16 February 1742
2 July 1743
Sussex
Sussex
Henry Pelham
27 August 1743
6 March 1754
Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
House of Lords
The Duke of Newcastle
16 March 1754
11 November 1756
Duke of Devonshire
House of Lords
The Duke of Devonshire
16 November 1756
29 June 1757
Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
House of Lords
The Duke of Newcastle
29 June 1757
26 May 1762
Representative Peer
House of Lords
The Earl of Bute
26 May 1762
8 April 1763
[note 1]
Buckingham
Buckinghamshire
George Grenville
16 April 1763
10 July 1765
Marquess of Rockingham
House of Lords
The Marquess of Rockingham
13 July 1765
30 July 1766
Bath
Somerset
William Pitt the Elder
30 July 1766
4 August 1766
Pitt "
kissed hands
" as a commoner on 30 July 1766. He chose to become
Lord Privy Seal
, and was created
Earl of Chatham
on 4 August 1766.
Earl of Chatham
House of Lords
The Earl of Chatham
4 August 1766
14 October 1768
See previous entry.
Duke of Grafton
House of Lords
The Duke of Grafton
14 October 1768
28 January 1770
Banbury
Oxfordshire
Lord North
28 January 1770
27 March 1782
Marquess of Rockingham
House of Lords
The Marquess of Rockingham
27 March 1782
1 July 1782
Baron Wycombe
House of Lords
The Earl of Shelburne
4 July 1782
26 March 1783
[note 2]
Duke of Portland
House of Lords
The Duke of Portland
2 April 1783
18 December 1783
Appleby
Westmorland
William Pitt the Younger
19 December 1783
3 April 1784
Cambridge University
Cambridgeshire
William Pitt the Younger
3 April 1784
14 March 1801
Chose to stand for different constituency
Devizes
Wiltshire
Henry Addington
17 March 1801
10 May 1804
Cambridge University
Cambridgeshire
William Pitt the Younger
10 May 1804
23 January 1806
Baron Grenville
House of Lords
The Lord Grenville
11 February 1806
25 March 1807
Duke of Portland
House of Lords
The Duke of Portland
31 March 1807
4 October 1809
Northampton
Northamptonshire
Spencer Perceval
4 October 1809
11 May 1812
Perceval was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons. He is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated.
Earl of Liverpool
House of Lords
The Earl of Liverpool
8 June 1812
9 April 1827
Seaford
Sussex
George Canning
20 April 1827
8 August 1827
Chose to stand for different constituency
Viscount Goderich
House of Lords
The Viscount Goderich
31 August 1827
8 January 1828
Duke of Wellington
House of Lords
The Duke of Wellington
22 January 1828
16 November 1830
Earl Grey
House of Lords
The Earl Grey
22 November 1830
9 July 1834
Baron Melbourne
House of Lords
The Viscount Melbourne
16 July 1834
14 November 1834
[note 2]
Duke of Wellington
House of Lords
The Duke of Wellington
17 November 1834
9 December 1834
Tamworth
Staffordshire
Sir Robert Peel, Bt.
10 December 1834
8 April 1835
Baron Melbourne
House of Lords
The Viscount Melbourne
18 April 1835
30 August 1841
[note 2]
Tamworth
Staffordshire
Sir Robert Peel, Bt.
30 August 1841
29 June 1846
City of London
City of London
Lord John Russell
30 June 1846
21 February 1852
Later created
Earl Russell
on 27 July 1861
Earl of Derby
House of Lords
The Earl of Derby
23 February 1852
17 December 1852
Viscount Gordon
House of Lords
The Earl of Aberdeen
19 December 1852
30 January 1855
[note 1]
Tiverton
Devon
The Viscount Palmerston
6 February 1855
19 February 1858
Earl of Derby
House of Lords
The Earl of Derby
20 February 1858
11 June 1859
Tiverton
Devon
The Viscount Palmerston
12 June 1859
18 October 1865
Earl Russell
House of Lords
The Earl Russell
29 October 1865
26 June 1866
Previously Lord John Russell.
Earl of Derby
House of Lords
The Earl of Derby
28 June 1866
25 February 1868
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Benjamin Disraeli
27 February 1868
1 December 1868
Greenwich
Kent
William Ewart Gladstone
3 December 1868
17 February 1874
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Benjamin Disraeli
20 February 1874
21 August 1876
Created
Earl of Beaconsfield
on 21 August 1876
Earl of Beaconsfield
House of Lords
The Earl of Beaconsfield
21 August 1876
21 April 1880
See previous entry.
Midlothian
Edinburgh
William Ewart Gladstone
23 April 1880
9 June 1885
Marquess of Salisbury
House of Lords
The Marquess of Salisbury
23 June 1885
28 January 1886
Midlothian
Edinburgh
William Ewart Gladstone
1 February 1886
20 July 1886
Marquess of Salisbury
House of Lords
The Marquess of Salisbury
25 July 1886
11 August 1892
Midlothian
Edinburgh
William Ewart Gladstone
15 August 1892
2 March 1894
Baron Rosebery
House of Lords
The Earl of Rosebery
5 March 1894
22 June 1895
[note 1]
Marquess of Salisbury
House of Lords
The Marquess of Salisbury
25 June 1895
11 July 1902
Manchester East
Lancashire
Arthur Balfour
12 July 1902
4 December 1905
Stirling Burghs
Stirlingshire
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
5 December 1905
5 April 1908
Perthshire
Fife
Linlithgowshire
Fife East
Fife
H. H. Asquith
5 April 1908
5 December 1916
Caernarvon Boroughs
Caernarfon
David Lloyd George
6 December 1916
19 October 1922
Glasgow Central
Glasgow
Bonar Law
23 October 1922
20 May 1923
Bewdley
Worcestershire
Stanley Baldwin
22 May 1923
22 January 1924
Aberavon
Glamorgan
Ramsay MacDonald
22 January 1924
4 November 1924
Bewdley
Worcestershire
Stanley Baldwin
4 November 1924
4 June 1929
Seaham
County Durham
Ramsay MacDonald
5 June 1929
7 June 1935
Bewdley
Worcestershire
Stanley Baldwin
7 June 1935
28 May 1937
Birmingham Edgbaston
Warwickshire
Neville Chamberlain
28 May 1937
10 May 1940
Epping
Essex
Winston Churchill
10 May 1940
5 July 1945
Constituency abolished effective with
1945 general election
Woodford
Essex
Winston Churchill
5 July 1945
26 July 1945
Limehouse
County of London
Clement Attlee
26 July 1945
23 February 1950
Constituency abolished effective with
1950 general election
Walthamstow West
Essex
Clement Attlee
23 February 1950
26 October 1951
Woodford
Essex
Sir Winston Churchill
26 October 1951
5 April 1955
Warwick and Leamington
Warwickshire
Sir Anthony Eden
6 April 1955
9 January 1957
Bromley
Kent
Harold Macmillan
10 January 1957
18 October 1963
Earl of Home
House of Lords
The Earl of Home
19 October 1963
22 October 1963
Douglas-Home was the
Earl of Home
when he became Prime Minister and renounced his peerage four days later to stand for the House of Commons.
Prime Minister outside Parliament
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
23 October 1963
7 November 1963
Douglas-Home was in neither House of Parliament and during an active parliament, briefly for twenty days. He was
elected in by-election
on 8 November 1963, but did not take his seat until 12 November.
Kinross and Western Perthshire
Kinross-shire
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
8 November 1963
16 October 1964
Perthshire
1st district
Oita
Tomiichi Murayama
30 June 1994
11 January 1996
4th district
Okayama
Ryūtarō Hashimoto
11 January 1996
30 July 1998
5th district
Gunma
Keizō Obuchi
30 July 1998
5 April 2000
2nd district
Ishikawa
Yoshiro Mori
5 April 2000
26 April 2001
11th district
Kanagawa
Junichiro Koizumi
26 April 2001
26 September 2006
4th district
Yamaguchi
Shinzo Abe
26 September 2006
26 September 2007
4th district
Gunma
Yasuo Fukuda
26 September 2007
24 September 2008
8th district
Fukuoka
Tarō Asō
24 September 2008
16 September 2009
9th district
Hokkaido
Yukio Hatoyama
16 September 2009
8 June 2010
18th district
Tokyo
Naoto Kan
8 June 2010
2 September 2011
4th district
Chiba
Yoshihiko Noda
2 September 2011
26 December 2012
4th district
Yamaguchi
Shinzo Abe
26 December 2012
16 September 2020
2nd district
Kanagawa
Yoshihide Suga
16 September 2020
4 October 2021
1st district
Hiroshima
Fumio Kishida
4 October 2021
Incumbent
References
^
a
b
c
Scottish Peers wasn't allowed to sit in the
House of Lords
unless they were Representative Peers or held Imperial Peerages (i.e.
Peerage of Great Britain
and
Peerage of the United Kingdom
), until the
Peerage Act 1963
which Scottish Peers had an automatic seat in the
House of Lords
until the
House of Lords Act 1999
.
^
a
b
c
Irish Peers wasn't allowed to sit in the
House of Lords
unless they were Representative Peers (from 1801 to 1921) or held Imperial Peerages (i.e.
Peerage of Great Britain
and
Peerage of the United Kingdom
), until the
House of Lords Act 1999
, but they had the right of to stand for election to the
House of Commons
as
Lord Palmerston
did during both his premierships.
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